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<h1>Introduction</h1>

<p>The TeXlipse plugin for Eclipse provides support for LaTeX projects. It is primarily aimed 
	at users who already know the basics about LaTeX, newbies will surely find it useful
but also a steeper learning curve. The following main features are offered:</p>

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	<li>Syntax highlighting</li>
	<li>Document outline</li>
	<li>Code folding</li>
	<li>Templates</li>
	<li>Build support, also partial building</li>
	<li>Annotations for errors (while editing)</li>
	<li>Content assist (completion of commands and references)</li>
	<li>Easy navigation with F3</li>
	<li>Outline of the current file and the full project</li>
	<li>Spell checking</li>
	<li>Menu with common LaTeX math symbols</li>
	<li>BibTeX editor and BibTeX-support</li>
	<li>BibLaTeX support</li>
	<li>Line wrapping</li>
	<li>Table editor</li>
	<li>Support for several platforms (Windows, Linux, OS X)</li>
	<li>Optional: Live PDF preview with <a href="http://borisvl.github.com/Pdf4Eclipse">Pdf4Eclipse</a></li>
	<li>Optional: <a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/">Bibsonomy</a></li> integration with 
	<a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/help_en/TeXlipseBibSonomyExtension">TeXlipseBibSonomyExtension</a></li>
	<li> ...and many more</li>
	</ul></p>

	<p>In other words, TeXlipse includes quite a complete set of features for day-to-day editing
		tasks. This manual explains the use of these features in detail, but please go ahead and
		explore TeXlipse!</p>
		
	<p>TeXlipse version 1.0 was brought to you by the Texlapse-team as a software project on the SoberIT
		lab of the Helsinki University of Technology. The Texlapse-team includes (in alphabetical order):
		Taavi Hupponen, Kimmo Karlsson, Jani Laitinen, Oskar Ojala, Antti Pirinen, Esa Seuranen 
		and Laura Takkinen.</p>

<p>TeXlipse version 1.5.0 was developed from 1.0 as an open source project on SourceForge.
The team that developed it consisted of Oskar Ojala, Kimmo Karlsson, Boris von Loesch, Tor Arne Vestb&oslash; and
Matthias Merll.
Additionally, several contributions were received from users of TeXlipse.
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TeXlipse uses <a href="http://jazzy.sourceforge.net">Jazzy</a> since version 1.4.0 for
spell checking.
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